Made herself 3 years older when auditioning as a chorus girl in New York in 1928. Some sources even claim that she was born in 1909. A short biography included on the DVD of "On the Avenue" states that she was 12 years old in 1927, and did indeed lie about her age in 1928.

Feeling she had given one of the best dramatic performances of her career, Faye was so upset by Darryl F. Zanuck's editing hack job on her last film, Fallen Angel (1945), that she literally walked away from the studio and didn't return for 16 years.

She remained quite good friends with her Fox rival and successor, Betty Grable, up until Betty's death of cancer in 1973.